Display changes when laptop is closed

Whenever I close my laptop, my normal display settings change. The icons and everything becomes magnified or just really large I guess. I have to go to my presentation director and hit on my normal display setting everytime I open my laptop in order to return to a normal nonmagnified screen. I have gone into the control panel but can not find a place that deals with this. I have aslo looked in the presentation director schemes and none of them deal with this. I am at a loss and tired of having to (fix) the display each time I open the laptop. Note: this does not happen when I first turn the laptop on. It only happens if I leave it on and close the top.

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It's a problem with your display drivers. What make and model is your laptop? What company makes it? Go to that company's website, and search for drivers, it's usually under the support page of most manufacturers websites. Find your model laptop (Usually identifiable on a sticker on the bottom of the laptop) and get the display, video, or graphics drivers. Install them, and your resolution will be back to normal.

Hi Alice, from what I have found on the web: This model features a 1440x900 native resolutionI am guessing you that you or a game has changed the resolution to something other than 1440x900.Assuming you have Windows 7: If you right click on the desktop in an empty spot ie not on a folder or icon, you should be able to see a selection called Screen Resolution, and then after that pulldown box next to the word "Resolution" that allows you to change your resolution to 1440x900. I am assuming a game has changed your resolution to something like 640x480 or something else like 800x600.If you aren't using Windows 7 go to Start, Control Panel, Display and you should be able to change your display settings there.Feel free to ask some questions or help from me.Regards,StevePS Feel free to vote for my answer or give a testimonial if I have helped you out.

You appear to be cloning your internal LCD and as long as it is active, the resolution setting for the LCD is also controlling the resolution of the external monitor. When the LCD is closed, then the default resolution of the external monitor is being used by Windows 7 (It apparently has autodetected the size of the monitor and knows the Highest optimal resolution it will display.) The higher the resolution, then smaller the icons.
To resolve, go to display properties and check the resolution of the internal LCD and then set the External display to the lower resolution.
You should be able to wake the system with an external keyboard, by pressing the spacebar, if the system is sleeping

your video driver may be corrupted or your screen resolution is too low.
1. right-click on your desktop screen then click properties. A display properties window should appear. Select a higher resolution like below:
2. Then click APPLY and OK. You should see any changes on your screen display. OR, you can RESTART your PC to see the desired effects.
3. Also, if the above don't correct your problem, try to look at your device manager and see if all video drivers are well stored. a) Right-click on you "My Computer" and click on Properties. The settings should look like one below:

If you see a yellow ? opposite your Display Adapter, there reinstall your video card.

Yes, it is normal because your game is running in a lower resolution. When the game is exited properly, then your normal resolution is restored but since it didn't exit properly, it forgot to change your resolution back.

Assuming this is windows xp, right click anywhere on the desktop that does not have an icon and select properties. There you can change the resolution to what it was; since I don't know what it was, you'll have to test a few to see which one looks the way it did before. Then once you find it, press okay and it will save.

Try Control Panel - Appearance or Display- You can change how your 2nd display looks there.. Sounds like you have it set in Clone mode...(both displays show the same things)...See if you can reset the 2nd display resolution while keeping the laptop in its normal resolution. Not all machines can do this...but most recent ones should be able to.

dear,
you have enabled your magnifier. thats why it happened. you can make it normal after closing maginfier by right clicking the magnifier icon place on your destop or tray where clock exist.
regards,
salman